FANWOOD — A woman was stabbed tonight at her borough home by a man known to her, police said.

The woman was stabbed around 6:30 p.m. and officers arriving at her home near the intersection of North and Hunter avenues saw her in her driveway "bleeding profusely," said Fanwood police Chief Richard Trigo.

A witness to the stabbing gave police at the scene a description of the attacker, Trigo said. An officer on patrol saw a man fitting the description running along North Avenue, and caught him at nearby railroad tracks, Trigo said.

The man, who also had sustained stab wounds, was apprehended and taken to University Hospital in Newark, Trigo said. The woman was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, he said. Both had sustained serious injuries, he said.

NJ Transit spokesman John Durso said one train was delayed by 15 minutes this evening on the Raritan Valley line due to "police activity."

Trigo declined to release additional details about how the man and woman knew each other.